As 2012 careens to a close, and my blog’s one year anniversary fast approaches, I thought it was time for a look back.

In case you missed any of my most excellent posts this past year  here is a ‘top-ten’ round-up of the most popular and, MY most favorite….

Most popular posts – according to Google Analytics:

1. The Charles Lindbergh house in Hopewell, New Jersey

2. Colorado mountainside earthship for sale

3. 10050 Cielo Drive – The last house of Sharon Tate

4. Pristine Arizona earth-sheltered home for sale

5. Earl Young’s Charlevoix Michigan Mushroom houses

6. The house that built me – my childhood home

7. The amazing homes of Javier Senosiain

8 . Colorado Earthships for sale

9. Easter Egg colored homes

10. A social worker’s/houselover’s take on Grey Gardens

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And some of my personal favorites:

1. Artist Lynn Hanson’s little cottage

2. The real life Amityville Horror house

3. Dollhouse libraries

4. Incredibly charming cottage gardens

5. The Anne of Green Gables House on Prince Edward Island

6. Embrace of the earthship

7. Dazzling 1860′s Octagon house in New York State

8. Touring Colorado Ghost Towns – my visit to St. Elmo

9. History come alive at the Hendrick Kip House in Fishkill, New York

10. Tuberculosis huts – the neatest little backyard treasures

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It was nearly impossible to whittle down that list since there are so many posts I really like. So I ended up just arbitrarily picking 10 of about 100 of my favs!

Fun fact: in my first year of blogging, I have posted close to 340 posts! A few of them were unfortunately ”lost” when I had to make more room due to bandwidth problems.

But not to fear, about 90% of my posts from the first year are still on-line. All you have to do is waste spend a few hours of your time surfing through my categories to see what interests you. I have something for everyone.

In the meantime, my New Year’s resolution is to slow down on the posting a bit.

I aim to do one post every two days from now on – so that I can spend more time researching and writing quality posts, rather than focusing on quantity.

After an exhaustive year of almost daily posting, it is my resolution to savor the process and be a little less frantic/crazy about posting. But don’t worry – there will still be plenty of crazy stuff!

I’m always open to suggestions for subject matter (I have already gotten a few I am researching for the new year) so just drop me a note and let me know!